Divorce In The Philippines

[JonKartero]

funny how people are saying there is no divorce in this country. meron tayo - under the Muslim Code of Personal Laws, and under the laws recognizing IP traditions where they have practices akin to divorce.

the only reason we don't have civil divorce is opposition from conservative Christian fundamentalists who prefer to keep people in broken marriages, because "mah beleyfs and mah relighun." kahit wala naman tayong state religion, and supposedly secular ang batas, and kahit wala namang kinalaman sa sarili nilang kasal.

here's irony for you: few Christian churches recognize civil marriages, if at all. kelangan daw "kasal sa simbahan" or sa minister or whatever. pero they oppose civil divorce, which would strictly speaking dissolve only the marriages as registered in the Civil Registry, and would not affect their own church records. as if wala silang sariling mechanism for dissolving marriages within their churches. for sure yung simbahang Katoliko meron, they even got part of it into our Family Code as Article 36.  

[khantan]

We are too emotional for a divorce law.  

Better yet . . . make marriage renewable every 3 or 5 years.  

And consider marriage terminated once any of the parties are late for renewal.

[haroots2]

On 11/2/2021 at 8:30 PM, male_scort4hire said:

Bat need ng divorce if may anument naman? mas mahusay nga yung anulment eh

Can you even give details why annulment is better?  Ang daming pumapayag na  mentally incapacitated yung lalaki para lang may legal basis yung annulment kahit hindi naman totoo.  So ang lumalabas kailangan mo pang magsinungaling para lang ma approve kahit both parties agree to live their separate ways.

[Duel of Fate]

7 hours ago, haroots2 said:

Can you even give details why annulment is better?  Ang daming pumapayag na  mentally incapacitated yung lalaki para lang may legal basis yung annulment kahit hindi naman totoo.  So ang lumalabas kailangan mo pang magsinungaling para lang ma approve kahit both parties agree to live their separate ways.

1divorce, in the most base explanation if you're talking to a 12 year old, means "you WERE married, legally" while annulment means "you were NEVER married; whatever you had back then was never valid". 

with the previous statement, annulment also NULLIFIES the family code thus all "conjugal" properties will no longer be recognized as conjugal. automatically. 

--- legal separation and divorce DO NOT recognize this. not automatically. a separate process needs to be done regarding the separation of properties. 

 

(am pro divorce btw. just pointing out the most damning difference between divorce and annulment). 

[johnlove]

In the Philippines, people are starting to look at murder as the way out of a bad marriage. 

Why?  Because of out sick marriage laws.  

I also notice a lot of young people looking at marriage laws in other countries, and not anymore getting married under Philippine laws.

[khantan]

Iba na ang panahon ngayon, kahit may covid.  Buhay pa ang tao kahit 70 na.

[K0RN - RETIR3D]

This should be passed in the the coming Administration.

[courtesanhunter]

tutol ako sa Divorce. mas gusto ko sanang isulong ang mas mabuti at mahabang pakikipagkilala ng mga magkarelasyon sa isa't isa bago sila tuluyang pumasok sa pagpapakasal. sa panahon kasi ngayon ang dami ng mapupusok na tao. madami ang minamadali ang kasal. saka nila mas kinikilala ang kanilang kapareha kapag kasal na sila kaya naman kapag may nalaman silang hindi nila gusto ay umaayaw na sila. mas maganda siguro kung may requirement na at least 5 years munang naging magkarelasyon ang couple bago sila bigyan ng marriage license?

[Edmund Dantes]

On 5/16/2022 at 12:20 PM, courtesanhunter said:

tutol ako sa Divorce. mas gusto ko sanang isulong ang mas mabuti at mahabang pakikipagkilala ng mga magkarelasyon sa isa't isa bago sila tuluyang pumasok sa pagpapakasal. sa panahon kasi ngayon ang dami ng mapupusok na tao. madami ang minamadali ang kasal. saka nila mas kinikilala ang kanilang kapareha kapag kasal na sila kaya naman kapag may nalaman silang hindi nila gusto ay umaayaw na sila. mas maganda siguro kung may requirement na at least 5 years munang naging magkarelasyon ang couple bago sila bigyan ng marriage license?

Well kahit naman wala pang divorce, ang dami nga dyan nagiging mapusok at padalos dalos

 

[Globalsin]

Time to consider passing divorce law. To expensive yung process of annulment here in the philippines

[Dealdealers]

Yes

[HappyHands]

Should be passed but then PH politics is heavily influence by church groups so sadly I dont think this will happen in any administration

[endarion]

Yes, but for the right reasons only like Physical and Verbal abuse

[gvcsec]

Should be passed

[czmn]

If you dont want a divorce, dont get one. People who want one should have access to it.